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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has group FernGully as a unrecorded action movie based connected nan beloved 1992 animated FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Marielle Heller is group to nonstop her ain script.
Stacey Sher will nutrient done Shiny Penny on pinch Susan Ursitti‑Sheinberg, Jon Sheinberg, and Matt Feige done Sheinberg Feige Organization (SFO Entertainment), and Defiant By Nature’s Heller and Leah Holzer. Moonli Singha will executive produce.
The original FernGully featured nan voices of Robin Williams, Tim Curry, Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis, and is remembered for nan tug of warfare complete Williams voicing different characteristic successful an animated film, since he was nan signature 1992 Disney animated movie Aladdin. The original is group successful an Australian rainforest populated by fairies, 1 of whom accidentally shrinks a logger to fairy size. They set together to protect nan rainforest from nan logging business and an evil contamination entity named Hexxus.
The movie featured songs and performances by Elton John, Raffi, Sheena Easton, Tim Curry, Robin Williams – whose Batty Rap number still stands retired — Johnny Clegg and a opus written by Jimmy Buffett.
This marks backmost to backmost movie deals for writer/director Heller, who this October will reunite pinch her A Beautiful Day successful nan Neighborhood prima Tom Hanks successful nan shot movie Comebacker, which Sony Pictures conscionable won astatine auction. Playtone and Heller’s Defiant By Nature are producing that one. Heller astir precocious wrote and directed nan Amy Adams-starrer Nightbitch, which she adapted from nan Rachel Yoder novel.
Heller is repped by UTA, P.J. Shapiro and Erin Einstein of Johnson Shapiro Slewett. Shout! Factory continues to administer nan original FernGully film. The Amazon MGM Studios woody was negotiated by Verve Talent and Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Almond.
